Soil Association Scotland are teaming up with the REAL (Real Education Active Lives) project at Inverness High School to host an organic Burns Supper in January, with recitals, speeches, music and dancing; and an ‘Immortal Memory’ served up by author and broadcaster Jimmie MacGregor.


22 December 2006

In January Eden Court In Exile will be presenting the comic show Insomnobabble at the Spectrum Centre, Inverness.
22 December 2006

Famously outspoken stand-up Janey Godley is to play an Eden Court In Exile show at Inverness’s Crown Court Hotel on 19 January 2007.  

22 December 2006

Members of the Carducci String Quartet will join Nicola Eimer at Inverness Town House for the opening Inverness Chamber Music Society concert of 2007.

22 December 2006

A draft Culture (Scotland) Bill was published on 14 December 2006, inviting the views of the public on how best to provide a legislative footing for plans to nurture the country's best creative and cultural talent.
22 December 2006

Councils across Scotland are looking at ways of getting more people involved in cultural activities.
22 December 2006

The four young charmers from North London The Holloways return due to public demand to The Ironworks on Febuary 28th 2007 after their ultra successful support slot for Babyshambles at The Ironworks.
22 December 2006

The Sunart Centre is delighted to welcome the Burnsong project for Workshops and a Concert on 27 January 2007.
22 December 2006

An artist has been selected for the cultural challenge of producing new work inspired by spending a year with Orkney’s farming community.
20 December 2006

Fèis Rois brings their 21st anniversary year to a terrific climax with a celebratory concert at Celtic Connections on Saturday 20th January 2007.
18 December 2006

Inverness Film Fans are delighted that Professor Kenneth MacKinnon has accepted an invitation to join them for a screening of Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 film 'The Last Picture Show' (Cert.15) on Tuesday 19 December 2006.

15 December 2006

An exhibition celebrating the artists of the past from the east Perthshire town of Blairgowrie will open at Perth Museum & Art Gallery on 16 December 2006 until 5 May 2007.
15 December 2006

An exhibition of ‘New Faces’ will open at Perth Museum and Art Gallery on the 16 December 2006.
15 December 2006

Works created in seven exciting visual arts projects for young people across the Highlands have been captured on a new web site which will be simultaneously launched in the seven communities on Wednesday 13 December (http://www.new-dynamics.org ).

14 December 2006

Children can look forward to a real treat this weekend (17 December 2006) when Children’s Classic Concerts bring their family show Tinseltime to Perth Concert Hall.
13 December 2006

With just 13 shopping days left until Christmas, the Scottish Arts Council has produced a comprehensive list of gallery highlights with details of Christmas exhibitions and events taking place at Own Art galleries across Scotland, providing plenty of ideas for unique Christmas gifts.
13 December 2006

This January and February, Scotland’s national opera company is out on the road again with its annual tour of operatic highlights. This year’s tour will visiting 15 venues across the nation in the Highlands, Islands, Lowlands and Borders.
13 December 2006

Highland 2007 has today announced that the Scottish Executive’s sustainable development campaign - It’s Our Future - will become the principal sponsor of The Outsider Festival in June 2007.
13 December 2006

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra unveils unique video-conferencing, offering music masterclasses to schools across Scotland.
13 December 2006

National Museums Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland have forged a partnership and developed a collaborative exhibition, Fonn ‘s Duthchas: Land and Legacy as part of the Highland 2007 programme.
13 December 2006

The many millions interested in the heritage of the Highlands and Islands will have a new bookmark in their browsers in the shape of the Heritage North (www.heritagenorth.org.uk ) – a website that will show off the best that the sector has to offer.
12 December 2006

The Scottish Jazz Federation will be launched at the Parliament tomorrow (Tuesday 12 December 2006) to help home-grown jazz contribute to Scotland’s international brand.
11 December 2006

Shetland Arts is seeking to commission a graphic designer or design agency to deliver an image/ brand for our new organisation.
11 December 2006

Call of the wild: from the deepest ocean to the tallest mountain, the search for the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 has begun.
08 December 2006

A collaborative pilot project took place with 12 adults over 5 sessions during October and November 2006.
06 December 2006

Further details were announced today of the Highland 2007 Launch and Lifescan Monster Street Party events taking place in Inverness on 12 January 2007.
06 December 2006

Scottish Youth Theatre has something to celebrate! Scotland’s national theatre ‘for & by’ young people has accomplished many great achievements in the past 30 years.
06 December 2006

Music lovers in Cromarty are in for a pre-Christmas treat on Friday 8 December 2006 in the form of a double bill of two of Scotland’s best female singer-songwriting talents.
06 December 2006

Michael Weston King plays the Listening Room  at Hootananny Inverness 17th January, 2007.

05 December 2006

THE BELL ENSEMBLE perform as part of the Inverness Town House Lunchtime Recital programme, organised by The Highland Council Education, Culture & Sport on Friday 8 December (1pm to 1.50pm).


05 December 2006

Breaking previous voting records, this year there were over 70,000 votes cast by the public from all over the world (South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada, Russia and Argentina) for the Scots Trad Music Awards 2006 which were announced at the Nevis Centre, Fort William on Saturday 2nd December 2006.
04 December 2006

The Fèisean have picked up an award at the Scots Traditional Music Awards, held in Fort William at the weekend (2 December 2006).
04 December 2006

A new book from Fèisean nan Gaidheal, which celebrates 25 years since the first fèis was held on the Isle of Barra in 1981, will be launched at the Traditional Music Awards in Fort William on Saturday 2nd of December 2006.
04 December 2006

“Bide a start wi’ Me”, a digitally re-mastered CD of the late Rhoda Bulter reciting her poems in Shetland dialect will be available early December from Bleatbeat Records, Shetland.
04 December 2006

A biography of Orcadian poet and writer, George Mackay Brown, has won the Scottish First Book of the Year award at the 2006 Saltire Literary Awards.
04 December 2006

Alasdair White, Battlefield Band’s virtuoso fiddle player, has released his first solo album An Clàr Geal.
04 December 2006

This year Fort William Mountain Festival and John Muir Trust are running Writing Competitions   They are looking for a piece of writing on a wild place.  This can incorporate a journey or expedition on land or water, real or fictional, an exploration of a remote place, a climb, a walk, a river, a loch, a mountain.  The competition will be judged by Cameron McNeish and Jim Perrin.  The winning piece of writing will be published in the John Muir Trust Journal

04 December 2006

Drambuie’s famous collection of Jacobite memorabilia is to go on long-term loan to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
04 December 2006

The Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation is delighted to announce that its 2007 funding programme Start is now open for applications.
01 December 2006

Northern Light is a short reading about George Mackay Brown & Orkney which is taking place in Maeshowe on Orkney on 16th December 2006.
01 December 2006

HI~Arts is pleased to be working with the Scottish Arts Council in the development of the Own Arts scheme in Scotland.
01 December 2006